IT Services & Systems Integration
The industry — Computer systems design and related services
Base industry report for 5415 →- Establishments · CanadaA
- 41,746
- Under 10 employeesA
- 87%
- Establishments · USA
- 145,211
- Employment · USA
- 2,126,573
- Payroll · USA
- $261.7B
Of 41,746 Canadian establishments with employees, 87% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.
Entry signal — what decides who wins here
Execution decidesThe hurdles here are ones a better operator clears. That is not a promise of success — it is the absence of a structural reason you cannot win.
Find something that compounds. Entry is achievable and so is the first customer; what is missing is a reason the next entrant cannot repeat it as easily as you did.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
This is not a probability of success, and it is not a verdict on you. No survival probability is published per market, and inventing one would be worse than saying so. What the bar reads is how much of the outcome sits inside an operator's control: green means the hurdles are ones a better operator clears, red means the binding constraint is capital, an asset or a permission rather than execution. Someone arriving with an advantage this screen did not assume can win a market shown in red.
Companies named in this market · 7
The binding constraint — defensibility
The largest professional-services market in the world and the one where scale decides everything: Accenture turned over $69.7B in fiscal 2025, Infosys $20.158B in fiscal 2026 (year to 31 March 2026, +4.6% reported and +3.1% in constant currency), and CGI — the Canadian comparable — C$15.91B in fiscal 2025, all growing in single digits. Beneath them the work is billable hours with no compounding asset, priced against offshore delivery centres a domestic entrant cannot match. The defensible versions are narrow: one platform, one regulated vertical, one geography. The MSP tooling market at this code is screened separately.
Delivery is global and the price of an hour is set by where it can be delivered from, not by where the client sits. That is the structural fact a domestic entrant is competing against.
Sectors joined: Cybersecurity · SaaS · Technology · Dev Tools · B2B SaaS · AI
[UNVERIFIED] Sector-to-NAICS mapping is analyst judgment — see data/angel-sector-map.json. Counts are a per-record cross-reference and are not additive across records.
Who you would be competing with
The operators already at scale here, and whoever is buying these businesses. In most of these industries the competition an entrant meets is local, so this is who sets the terms rather than a list of everyone in the trade.
Financials & market size — sourced
Figures that came from a filing, a results release or reputable reporting, each carrying its evidence tier.
Market size, derived
Built from the competitor set upward rather than quoted from a forecast. Published TAMs in these categories are frequently reverse-engineered from each other, so any published figure is checked against the vendor arithmetic rather than trusted on its own.
Disclosed revenue from 2 of 4 named vendors. The market is at least this large.
No vendor has both a disclosed revenue and a published share.
Only a revenue floor is known — the true market is larger by whatever the undisclosed vendors earn.
Competitor set · 4 named · 2 disclose revenue
| Name | Revenue | Share | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| AccentureNYSE: ACNA | $69.7B | — | FY2025 revenue |
| InfosysNYSE: INFYA | $20.2B | — | FY2026 (ended 2026-03-31), 20-F filed 2026-06-15. Infosys's own US$ presentation — its 20-F consolidated statements are presented in U.S. dollars although the functional currency is the rupee — not a conversion performed here. Prior year $19.277B |
| CGI (Canadian — Montréal)TSX/NYSE: GIB.AA | not disclosed | — | FY2025 revenue C$15.91B; reported in Canadian dollars and deliberately not converted into the floor |
| Deloitte / TCS / Capgemini / WiproC | not disclosed | — | Not researched for this record |
Evidence
Evidence. Incumbent financials on this record ARE sourced (tier A/B, see the financials block). The cut factor and reasoning remain analyst judgment and were not tested against customers.
Where the industry talks
The associations, forums and events where people in this trade actually talk shop — where to listen before entering, and where the first customers are found. Each link was opened on the date shown.
Canada's national tech industry association (formerly ITAC)
IT channel association for solution providers and MSPs; runs ChannelCon and regional communities
MSP peer community; its site says it is now part of GTIA
ConnectWise's MSP conference and community; Nov 4-6, 2026
Software serving this industry
Vertical software markets filed along the same branch of NAICS — who sells to these businesses, and who an entrant would have to displace.